Before the entire show airs at 12 p.m. PT/ 3 p.m. ET, you can watch several previews on Othertone’s Connect page in Apple Music. One of the previews is a disturbing, yet fascinating breakdown of how Blaine does his ice pick trick. Although people have tried to explain it in YouTube clips in the past, here Blaine does a step-by-step guide with Tyson, Blaine, Vener, and French photographer JR grimacing as he does it.
Tyson has the honor of pulling the ice pick out of Blaine’s hand, which incredibly shows that the trick didn’t draw blood. The astrophysicist and go-to science explainer than provides several reasons why our minds are programmed to accept this illusion as something real. Vener wasn’t lying when he said listeners needed to hear this episode several times.
In another clip, Tyson blows Pharrell’s mind by describing how time is measured in the solar system, as well as our everyday lives.
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This conversation is probably the reason why Tyson tweeted this about the sun a few weeks ago. Have a nice day, indeed.
Watch more clips below, and be sure to tune into the episode on Sept. 18.